Aloysio Nunes
Aloysio Nunes
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
7 March 2017 – 31 December 2018
PresidentMichel Temer
Preceded byJosé Serra
Succeeded byErnesto Araújo
Senator for São Paulo
In office
1 February 2011 – 1 February 2019
Minister of Justice
In office
14 November 2001 – 3 April 2002
PresidentFernando Henrique Cardoso
Preceded byJosé Gregori
Succeeded byMiguel Reale Júnior
Secretary-General of the Presidency
In office
3 August 1999 – 14 November 2001
PresidentFernando Henrique Cardoso
Preceded byEduardo Graeff
Succeeded byArthur Virgílio Neto
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1 February 1995 – 1 February 2007
ConstituencySão Paulo
Vice Governor of São Paulo
In office
15 March 1991 – 31 December 1994
GovernorLuiz Antônio Fleury
Preceded byAlmino Afonso
Succeeded byGeraldo Alckmin
Member of the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo
In office
15 March 1983 – 15 March 1991
ConstituencyAt-large
Personal details
Born (1945-04-05) 5 April 1945
São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
Political partyPSDB (1997–present)
Other political
affiliations
  • PCB (1963–1974)
  • MDB (1974–1980)
  • PMDB (1980–1997)
SpouseGisele Nu
Alma materUniversity of São Paulo

Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho (born 5 April 1945) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. A member of PSDB, Nunes was a senator from São Paulo from 2011 to 2017, and was Brazil's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018.[1]

Biography

Aloysio Nunes attended the University of São Paulo Law School in the 1960s when he got involved into politics, associated with the Brazilian Communist Party. During the military dictatorship he participated in protest robberies and mugging. Later he was exiled in Paris, France.

In 1979 he was able to return to Brazilian soil due to the Amnesty Law, that pardoned the oppositionist political militants. He de-affiliated from the Brazilian Communist Party and joined the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party. In 1982 he was elected deputy in São Paulo. The dictatorship ended in 1985.

Political career

Nunes meets with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on June 4, 2018.

In 1990 he was elected vice governor of São Paulo. He governed the state in a few occasions, when the governor was travelling or in each case, absent.

He was candidate for mayor of the city of São Paulo in 1992, but lost to Paulo Maluf.

He was elected federal deputy in 1994. In 1997 he left the party and joined the Brazilian Social Democracy Party. He was a special aide to president Fernando Henrique Cardoso and later his minister of justice.

He worked in the governments of José Serra in the city and the state of São Paulo.

In 2010 he was elected the senator with the highest number of votes in the history of Brazil, with astonishing 11.189.168 votes (30.4%).

He was the candidate to the vice presidency in the 2014 presidential elections in Aécio Neves's ticket. Together they had obtained slightly more than 51 million votes, however they lost the elections by a slight margin to Dilma Rousseff, from the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT).

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Senator Aloysio Nunes to take over Brazil's Foreign Ministry". Empresa Brasil de Comunicação - Agência Brasil. 2017-03-03. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.